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'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
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Author
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Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Artificial intelligence
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Description
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Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated its capability to solve a diverse array of challenging problems, which were not able to solve previously. It has been able to achieve human-level performance in Atari 2600 games and it has shown great p...
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3D Printing of Metamaterials with Conductive Elements
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Author
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Tuttle, Geoffrey
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science
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Description
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To fulfill their engineered purpose, resonant metamaterials require arrays of complex three-dimensional geometries composed of non-conductive dielectrics and highly conductive materials. In order to create these geometries, 3D printers must be abl...
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A Beginning-to-End System for Efficiently Gathering Tracking Data on Multiple Targets
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Author
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Rice, Lance
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science
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Description
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Multi-object tracking in video has the potential for broad applicability, from analyzing division-of-labor within biological networks such as insects, to surveillance and traffic monitoring. Despite any potential the field of multiple object track...
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A Chronosequence of Cracking in Mill Creek, California
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Author
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Berberich, Samantha
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Geomorphology
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Description
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Mechanical weathering –aka physical weathering; the process by which rock is broken down into smaller pieces --is one of the first modifications rock undergoes once it approaches Earth’s surface. Essentially, almost all processes that shape the la...
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A Cut-Cell Based Ghost Fluid Method for Multi-Component Compressible Flows
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Author
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Liu, Chen
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Fluid mechanics
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Description
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Multi-material compressible flows are observed in several applications of practical relevance including combustion, cavitation and shock lithotripsy. To solve such flows numerically with improved efficiency and accuracy, the use of the Ghost Fluid...
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A Detailed Description of Keldysh's Model of Photoionization
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Author
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Darden, Kenan
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Physics, Optics, Quantum theory
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Description
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Leonid Keldysh’s 1965 paper "Ionization in the Field of a Strong Electromagnetic Wave" contains useful and simple-to-implement equations predicting the rate of photoionization in both atomic gasses and general crystalline solids. Crucially, his re...
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A HYBRID SWITCH BASED ARCLESS VOLTAGE REGULATOR
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Author
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Xu, Xiwen
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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The voltage regulator is a mechanism that permits the change in turns ratio or output voltage of a distribution transformer for providing a constant magnitude voltage to the load. The arc occurs under oil in each tap changing operation because one...
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A LOAD-BASED TEMPERATURE PREDICTION MODEL FOR ANOMALY DETECTION
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Author
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Sobhani, Masoud
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Power resources
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Description
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Electric load forecasting, as a basic requirement for the decision-making in power utilities, has been improved in various aspects in the past decades. Many factors may affect the accuracy of the load forecasts, such as data quality, goodness of t...
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A New Methodology for Detecting Incipient Faults in Electric Machinery
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Author
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Bhogale, Pratik
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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Faults in electric machinery such as generators, although rare, still costs hundreds of thousands of dollars for diagnostics, and repairs along with extra costs incurred by the downtime of the machine. This thesis proposes a new way, which is chea...
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A PALEOECOLOGICAL STUDY OF URBAN ABANDONMENT DURING EARLY BRONZE IV IN THE SOUTHERN LEVANT
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Author
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Porson, Steven
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Environmental sciences, Archaeology, Paleoecology
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Description
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An archaeobotanical study of plant remains from the Near Eastern archaeological site of Tell Abu en-Ni‘aj, Jordan ascertains a possible cause for the abandonment of towns during Early Bronze IV. This study assesses the hypothesis that the collapse...
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A Post Construction Evaluation of Subcontractor Performance
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Author
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Vialet, Kurrisa
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Management
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Description
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Construction projects are increasing in complexity and thus more contractors are becoming more reliant on subcontractors that are trade specific to complete a project. Since a large portion of the work is subcontractor-driven, the success of a pro...
